Example sentences of "my [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman .
2 I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’
3 ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me .
4 Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’
5 Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them .
6 No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun .
7 I have made my plans and I must stick to them .
8 And then I came down to Kerry after my operations because I was er for my feet , I had to get them amputated because For the hardening of the arteries
9 He lets me have my freedom and he 's everything the other boys ca n't be .
10 ‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope .
11 ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes .
12 The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine .
13 Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er
14 I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to .
15 Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know .
16 ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’
17 I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses .
18 I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’
19 I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again .
20 ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless .
21 It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her .
22 ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains .
23 Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true .
24 And as a stranger to my heart and me
25 When I die , pluck out my heart and you 'll find Calais engraved upon it . ’
26 that came in my head and all I wan na do if money you can to I wan na love you , for my heart and you make me a brand new woman , you make me ha , you wan na
27 That affair left a permanent scar on my heart and I was afraid of reopening it .
28 I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’
29 If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead .
30 I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks .
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